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Supermarine Spitfire
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Crimea_River
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Battle of Britain in 30C heat with a Spitfire PR XI. Cool! 
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Yeah, the BoB went on longer than most people believe, and really spread around the globe too !
Maybe the PR.XI was one of those used to get air to air footage of Japanese "Zeros" being shot down over Kent and Sussex, at the height of the Battle, in September 1944 ............... cough !
Maybe the PR.XI was one of those used to get air to air footage of Japanese "Zeros" being shot down over Kent and Sussex, at the height of the Battle, in September 1944 ............... cough !
Wow learn't something new....
buffnut453
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The chap in the chip-bag hat, standing with arms folded behind the camera is Donald Pearson, an old friend of mine who's sadly missed. Donald flew Vildebeests as a Flt Lt at Singapore in 1941 before being promoted to Sqn Ldr and put in charge of the OTU that used ex-21 Sqn RAAF Wirraways to help prepare pilots to fly the Buffalo. He was in that role when the Japanese attacked Malaya but, due to his rank and lack of airframes he wasn't able to fly operations. Trying every wrangle to get on ops, he eventually joined 4 PRU flying the locally-converted PR Buffalos...but he had to drop back to Flt Lt to do it. He flew out of Singapore on 7 Feb 1942 and escaped to India where he later flew PR Hurricanes and Spitfires over Burma, ultimately going on to lead 681 Sqn flying PR Spitfires, initially MkXI and finally MkXIX.
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Tail hook.
buffnut453
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And anchor overpainted on the fuselage roundel.
Crimea_River
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French navy trial maybe.
fubar57
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According to this site....Année 1946 - ARDHAN
Mar. 1946..."After the threat of seeing naval aviation disappear (conflict with the Air Force), the Superior Council of the Navy decides that the latter must keep its own aviation and must undertake the establishment of an aviation embedded. The Hyères 1F flotilla receives its first Seafires and Spitfires"
Mar. 1946..."After the threat of seeing naval aviation disappear (conflict with the Air Force), the Superior Council of the Navy decides that the latter must keep its own aviation and must undertake the establishment of an aviation embedded. The Hyères 1F flotilla receives its first Seafires and Spitfires"
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Its a Seafire III RX290.
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